Grapevine - Freewrite

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I heard it through the grapevine - that darn song and the dancing raisins won't leave my brain. Sing along!! Loud!! Sing on the top of your lungs!!! All together now: " We heard it through the grapevine....."
Of course, when I first came here, I didn't know what that meant. Like with so many things you learn in school - or could have learned if you had paid attention - often it is not so applicable in real life.
the English learned in School is rather formal - and in my case, British English which is a whole other language in many ways.
Just read some of the freewrites or when people are talking in discord.
the other day, in one of the discord channels, people were making fun of each other and talked about singing and taking selfies - I think. One of the lovely Englishmen was saying that he was painting the roof as he was talking on Discord and presumably taking selfies.
Of course, the American crowd gasped. We all visualized him on top of a 3 story building with paint brush and bucket in hand painting the roof with one hand and taking pictures with the other. Of course, for a second there, we were wondering why you would want to paint a roof in the first place. but you know - different countries, different customs.
Then, he posted a picture and he was painting a ceiling!!! A totally different story... Another example of using the same word and thinking of completely different things - happens all the time...

Random Raising YouTube Videos so you can have the song and images in your head as well :)